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Okay… so that title’s probably a bit of an exaggeration. But “biking among billionaires” just has a much nicer ring to it than “biking among multi-millionaires”, so please forgive me for the hyperbole for the remainder of this post. =) As longtime readers know, I’ve been a bike commuter for nearly 5 years now (it’ll [...] ...

It’s been a while since we did a He Said/She Said on our blog, so forgive us if this is a little rusty. We talk a decent amount on this blog about how much we’re saving (*cough* all those income statement and balance sheet posts *cough* ) and (though to a lesser extent the past [...] ...

Look at those eyes! So cute! A week ago, we left for our evening walk and our neighbor called us over. “Hey!” he said, pointing downward, “Is this your cat'” There on the ground, circling our neighbor’s feet, was a ridiculously friendly kitten. Within a minute, the kitten had stopped circling our neighbor’s feet [...] ...

This past weekend, Mr PoP realized that we were down about $40K in market value on our investments over the past week due to market losses. It didn’t bother us (if anything it was just taking back some of the INSANE gains from YTD before that), but it meant that one subject of conversation in [...] ...

The last line was what caught my eye… A couple of weeks ago I was poking around the “Edit Accounts” section of Mint.com trying to see if I could add our new Vanguard Donor Advised Fund to the list of accounts we track in Mint, and I happened to look to the right and [...] ...

2017 was a year of highs and lows, and very much felt defined by two items: Mr PoP finally buying his dream car – a 25 year old Honda, and living that joy daily, and Experiencing our first ever hurricane and dealing with the stress and the aftermath in our own ways. Looking at our [...] ...

Welcome to our December 2017 Balance Sheet! We use the structure of a monthly income statement and balance sheet in tandem to make sure we are keeping our expenses low and planting our pennies wisely. If you’re not already tracking your finances using these two methods, go to mint.com and get started today! If you [...] ...

One of the prettiest things I saw this month – a christmas tree decorated very simply and beautifully with lights and bromeliad plants. It was so very Florida – I loved it! Mr. PoP and I put these income statements together for two reasons. First, we want to be transparent about our finances because [...] ...

I cannot begin to describe how happy we are this Friday that our memories of the hurricane are finally starting to fade a bit as our outstanding hurricane related items are finally pretty much all addressed. (Well, mostly – there are a couple of small lingering ones, but the big ones are finally taken care [...] ...

Welcome to our November 2017 Balance Sheet! We use the structure of a monthly income statement and balance sheet in tandem to make sure we are keeping our expenses low and planting our pennies wisely. If you’re not already tracking your finances using these two methods, go to mint.com and get started today! If you [...] ...

Posted: Dec 08 2017 @ 11:55 AM

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